{"claimId":"clm_ec_b6-ash-blood-sugar","version":1,"status":"current","verdict":"Ashwagandha for blood sugar: Grade C at low certainty. Systematic review and meta-analysis of Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) in diabetes: pooled data suggest a possible glucose-lowering effect, but the authors conclude the anti-diabetic profile is not yet established and call for larger, longer randomized trials measuring blood glucose, HbA1c and insulin. Signal, not confirmation.","direction":"benefit","magnitude":{"metric":"other","value":null,"unit":"","ci95":null,"humanReadable":"Systematic review and meta-analysis of Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) in diabetes: pooled data suggest a possible glucose-lowering effect, but the authors conclude the anti-diabetic profile is not yet established and call for larger, longer randomized trials measuring blood glucose, HbA1c and insulin. Signal, not confirmation.","baselineAbsoluteRisk":null},"certainty":"low","clinicalMeaning":"small_but_potentially_useful","applicability":{"appliesTo":["adults with diabetes or elevated blood glucose"],"doesNotApply":["children"],"unknown":["pregnancy"]},"safetyQualifiers":["moderate_with_ssri"],"evidenceBundleId":"eb_ec_b6-ash-blood-sugar","citations":[{"pmid":"31975514","design":"peer-reviewed"}],"reviewedBy":{"name":"Substrate editorial","credential":"Independent research collective"},"reviewedAt":"2026-07-16T16:23:22.243Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T16:23:22.243Z","methodologyVersion":"v1","methodologyDoi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21364236","canonicalUrl":"https://evidencebased.info/interventions/ashwagandha/blood-sugar","attribution":"Substrate (evidencebased.info), claim clm_ec_b6-ash-blood-sugar v1, reviewed 2026-07-16","license":"CC-BY-4.0 proposed; reuse license pending governance ratification","dataSource":"live"}